Thursday, March 19, 2009

Floating Glowing Beings of Pure Love

The first word in this song is discorporate.It means to leave your body.Frank Zappa

...two days ‘til the yoga retreat...as before any trip, I’m worrying about stuff going wrong...last year, the plane I was supposed to be flying had a cracked window...thanks to a piece of wing breaking off and hitting it on the way up from Miami...had to wait eight hours for another plane to arrive from London...this year I put in a request for Sullenberger, but the airline couldn’t make any guarantees...

...but what about the inherent problems in things potentially going too well? What if I become too enlightened? What if I discorporate completely and end up a Floating Glowing Being of Pure Love?

...in working with addicts, it should be a bonus...who needs cocaine or heroin when you’ve got a Floating Glowing Being of Pure Love on call?...for dedicated readers of Yoga for Cynics, however, the question will be: can a Floating Glowing Being of Pure Love maintain a blog? Does a Floating Glowing Being of Pure Love have the tangible digits necessary to manipulate a computer keyboard?

...of course, with or without new posts, visiting this blog will be highly beneficial, as it will likely carry kinda the opposite of a virus...all e-mails, tweets, etc. received on affected computers will be filled with kindness, good tidings, and boundless affection....please note, however, that web browsers could have trouble accessing racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise hateful or disempowering content...not that they can’t...they just won’t want to...

...then, should I remain in corporeal, generally unenlightened form, never mind....the next post’ll be up by April’s Fool’s day...

17 comments:

Lol! For one so enlightened you sure do worry some. Relax, have a good time and if you should morph into a floating, glowing being of pure love ... we will understand completely and expect to feel very very good blobby vibes when we visit your blog!

well, dude, if you want to do a yoga retreat on the island of Zanzibar (that's off the coast of Tanzania, Africa in case you are geographically challenged), if things work out, I'm conducting one, March 2010.

I have to admit, Jay--I am definitely jealous of you for your upcoming yoga retreat/vacation--and in the Mexican Caribbean, no less! Of course, enjoy, enjoy.

I love that piece of Van Gogh's--and I really like your renaming of it (but would Vincent approve, Jay? Hmnnnn>?). I always identified and was fascinated with Van Gogh--and believe it or not, there was a time when I wished I had the balls to do something as outrageous/shocking as cut off my ear for the sake of art).

Fortunately, my love for shock value was never that extreme (or painful and disfiguring).

Have a massage. Then you will be a floating glowing being a pure love!

I used to have a friend, her whole family was super artistic...anyway she took plaster or putty or something and textured her walls to make a copy of Starry Night in her room. It turned out pretty awesome by the time she finished it and painted it.

I like your sense of humor but on a serious note, I've long felt the term "enlightenment" is misleading in the sense that it suggests it's a kind of end-state where one can "arrive." While there's a direction, a way, and the possibility of profound change, I don't believe that such an end-state exists.

Example: in rejecting the attempt of some of his followers to deify him, the Buddha said that he continued to struggle with following his own Eightfold Path.

If this is true (and you only write the truth ~ right ? :) "...of course, with or without new posts, visiting this blog will be highly beneficial, as it will likely carry kinda the opposite of a virus...all e-mails, tweets, etc. received on affected computers will be filled with kindness, good tidings, and boundless affection...." I can officially stop worrying about the 200 pictures that my cannibalistic hard drive ate. Thanks, I needed the reassurance ~ I feel better already. :)